HealthPartners is currently hiring for a Senior Quality/Performance Engineer. The Quality/Performance Engineer provides stability and resilience and quality engineering expertise while supporting the delivery of high quality software to meet business needs. The engineer's responsibilities are focused on creating performance testing strategies and leading the development and delivery of technology-based solutions for performance testing. This position provides performance, quality control and quality assurance expertise and services. The engineer establishes and promotes performance and quality best practices in the Software Development Lifecycle and provides guidance, leadership and subject matter expertise for application teams utilizing Health Partners' performance testing processes. This position provides support to implement, manage, track and coordinate performance engineering and testing disciplines of HealthPartners Health Plan and Enterprise Systems. It also provides mentoring and guidance to less experienced teammates.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum 4 Years Degree in computer science or closely related field
• 8+ years of related IT experience.
• 6+ years of experience in Performance testing including cloud-native web, windows, mobile application, services, and legacy software.
• 3+ years of object-oriented programming experience, such as C#, Java, and Ruby.
• 3+ years of experience in tools like JMeter, K6, Blaze meter, Gatlin
• 3+ years of SQL experience and an ability to write intermediate to complex SQL queries.
• 2+ years of experience providing work direction and leading automation.
• Experience in analyzing and reviewing requirement documents, functional and non-functional specifications and developing strategy and recommendations.
• Experience in analyzing system architecture and provide feedback to the team on improving the application performance.
• Leveraging skills in data analysis, network diagnostics and debugging tools to characterize performance, reliability, scalability, and capacity of large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in building and maintaining a scalable, portable, configurable Performance testing framework in large scale cloud environment.
• Identifying root cause of operational issues and designing tools to help predict and prevent reoccurrence.
• Experience with modern software engineering practices (DevOps. ATDD, TDD, CI/CD, Agile Development)
• Experience with Java-based, C# and object-oriented based libraries, frameworks, and IDEs
• Experience using a variety of Performance testing and monitoring tools such as VSTS Webload Test, JMeter, Load Runner, Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics and other modern leading tools.
• A self-starter who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment in collaboration within the team and with other teams at Health Partners
• Demonstrates strong leadership as an advocate for product performance, is results oriented and has a high degree of accountability, commitment, and responsibility.
• 2+ years of experience in Mobile performance testing in iPhone, Android using leading tools.
• Experience with performance diagnostics, performance architecture design, performance tuning, performance monitoring, capacity planning, and/or software development in a n-tier environment
• Experience with Quality tools like JIRA, Zephyr, ZAPI, MTM, TFS, and other test management tools
• Experience in the Health Care industry (preferred not required).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certification in performance engineering

Location/Hours:

• M-F; Days
• This is a hybrid/remote position and will prefer local/regional candidates for occasional on-site needs.

Accountabilities:

• Helps develop an overall performance testing strategy that outlines specific tools, strategies, and expectations for both cloud-native web applications and services and legacy software.
• Identifies strategies and approaches to reduce overall performance issues and backlogs.
• Helps formulate and lead the development of effective performance test architecture and framework per organizational needs.
• Builds and maintains scalable, portable, configurable Performance test engineering solutions using different performance engineering tools and methods.
• Partners with the application architects to identify specific infrastructure components (hardware, software, database, etc.) for architectural and tuning improvements.
• Configures test environments, tools to prepare for performance tests.
• Conducts performance prototyping, system capacity modeling and projections, performance driven design, application profiling and baselining to measure and improve system performance.
• Writes performance test plans and scripts and conducts performance tests.
• Develops and communicates performance, load and stress testing goals, priorities, and status.
• Helps product teams maximize performance testing in support of continuous delivery.
• Helps develop and support a diverse performance testing toolchain that can be leveraged by multiple product teams.
• Evaluate and research emerging performance tuning methodologies, monitoring tools, processes, and technologies.
• Provides technical leadership, engineering solutions, and strategic direction for performance improvement.
• Mentors' product team members regarding performance testing and quality practices
• Understands and applies software engineering principles with respect to performance and code quality.
• Helps teams formulate and develop robust test data management solutions for performance testing and other needs.
• Provides subject matter expertise in performance monitoring, tuning, analysis, and diagnostics.
• Performs additional job duties as required.